Over the course of a week, each student will use an iPad to express their opinion on their favorite food through drawings/photos, written and spoken words. The teacher can combine the pages and recordings to create a class book read and explained from the students.  

Kittens Galore!: Standard 6.EE.1 Write and evaluate numerical expressions involving whole-number exponents.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

This lesson plan has been created to help students build their annotation skills, close reading skills, and ability to identify and analyze the central idea of a text.  This lesson plan also has been created to build digital annotation skills using the Pages application for iPad.  The overall outcome of this lesson plan is to show students the benefits of annotating a text using a digital tool and then taking the information from a text and applying it to create a Public Service Announcement that will bring awareness to a real-world issue or historical event that has had a large impact on our society.  

This lacrosse skill sheet will help students test their different abilities in scooping, throwing, catching, and more. 

In this social studies activity, students will review their understanding of the legislative branch of government using Nearpod's interactive quiz game, Time to Climb.

(Lesson Plan Image Source: Allison Terry)This is a lesson plan designed to be used by World Language - ASL teachers to formally assess students expression. It is highly adaptable and is aligned with Utah State World Langauge Core Standards.While this is called a lesson plan, it is really more of an ongoing assessment plan utilizing Apple Pages to create a Digital Daily ASL Journal that contains daily video logs (vlogs) based on a prompt given by the teacher. Students record their responses to the teacher prompt and submit these at the end of a unit for evaluation and to help the teacher determin what needs to be retaught before the final summative assessment for the unit.STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: NL.IC.3 I can answer a few simple questions.

This collection of division word problems prompts learners to use a variety of methods of division. Allowing learners to choose their own method to solve the word problems enables them to see the strengths and weaknesses of various methods and to see why certain methods might be better for specific problems. Included with these problems is the solution, teacher resource page, tips on getting started, and a printable student page.

Let's Buy a Longboard: Standard 7.NS.3 Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers. Computations with rational numbers extend the rules for manipulating fractions to complex fractions.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).

First Grade Language Arts, Reading: Literature Standard 3--Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.  Students will be able retell the setting, characters, and major events in a story and will demonstrate this knowledge through creating a Keynote presentation.

This lesson is intended to teach students digital annotation skills and reinforce their knowledge of rhetorical devices using Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. This resource can be modified to focus on annotating physical copies of a document and with other documents.Cover image: Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash

Linear Challenge: Standard 8.F.3 Interpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give examples of functions that are not linear. For example, the function A = s2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line.
This formative assessment exemplar was created by a team of Utah educators to be used as a resource in the classroom. It was reviewed for appropriateness by a Bias and Sensitivity/Special Education team and by state mathematics leaders. While no assessment is perfect, it is intended to be used as a formative tool that enables teachers to obtain evidence of student learning, identify assets and gaps in that learning, and adjust instruction for the two dimensions that are important for mathematical learning experiences (i.e., Standards for Mathematical Practice, Major Work of the Grade).